The collection societies –
authorised by law and having a legal monopoly to determine, collect and
divide the blank carrier media remuneration – had not made any adjustments to
reflect the changes to content consumption habits (e.g. when specifying the
fee, copying for music purposes remained well overrated), with the result
that the determination of the blank carrier media remuneration may have been
distorted due to deficiencies in the methods of their market researches and
economic analyses.

Decision:

The GVH accepted the
commitments offered by the parties to

remedy
the deficiencies present in their market researches and economic analyses;

take the
changes to content consumption patterns into account, even if this
necessitates abandoning obsolete methods and employing new content
consumption technologies;

establish
the possibility of reclaiming blank carrier media remuneration that has been
paid.